Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1887-01-21


by "Ys" Natlohhl Temperance 'fiJst.tal sociGls,
for bcncs; Of the ctdow-nt,it 6f t,,ds for young
woman, We refer you to ThE UStoN siGSAL
Tor Dtecinbcr2, ,, We suggeSt that the reading
Of this paper to youhg PEOPLE Will be more cf.
fcctivc n cit from this column. and pasted on
writing PAPER, and read from that without any
rcfcrciico to the hhthurship.-M. McpowEm.l
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Dr. Andrew Clark, of london, physi-
clan to the Queen and TO Gladstone,
says "Alcohol is moi only not helper
of work but certain hIndercr, and every
man who comes to the front of pro-
fcssion in london is marked by this one
characteristic, that the more busy he
gets the less in shape of alcohol he takes,
and his excuse is, I am sorry, but ]
cannot take it and do my work" y"
DR.. VIM. b. Carter, one OF the great
est names in medicine, says: 1T is the
duty OF the medical practitioner to dis
courage as much as possible the habit
ual use of alcoholic liquors in however
moderate a quantity by all persons in
ordinary health, and to seek TO remedy
those slight departures from health
which result from the wear and tear of
active life by the means which shall
most directly remove or antogonize
their causes, instead of by such as simply
pallate their effects"
SIR Henry Thompson, of London, than
whom the worlds metropolis has not a
physician more distinguished, makes
the following declaration: alcoholic
drinks are perfectly useless for any of
the conditions of life to which men are
subjected save under the most except
ionable conditions, which none but
skilled observers can declare"
Robert browning, "the poet of the
future" says lone wise mans verdict
outweighs all the fools',' and am pre-
pared to give you the VERDICT of more
thaa one wise man. and they all eS-
perts, scientists, and physicians. We
will be compelled to chnose from the
large number of witnesses but few,
for space is limited We call up the
new school of medicine, and they say
Alcoholic liquors are not part of our
n,ateria metlica, and are only called into
use, sometimes, al the crisis of disease
or in chill of a congestive character.
"But, says one vetran of the old school
DR.. N. S, Davis, president of Chicago
Medical College, "for more than thirty
years past have faithfully tested the
correctness of the sentiments ! have
given you in relation to the therapeutic
effects and uses of alcoholic liquids in
an ample clinical experience, both in
hospital and private practice and dur
all that time have found no case of dis
ease and no emergency arising from acci-
dent, that / could not treat more sue
cessfully without any form of ferment-
ed or distilled liquors than with" And
he also says, in the same lecture
which he gave before the medical
school, "that the supposed benefits of
this class of agents in medicine are as
illusory as they are worthy of careful
consideration, when he says: Wine is
a mocker and strong drink is raging,
and whosoever is deceited thereby is not
wise'"
In 1899 the American Medical Associa.
tion convened at Minneapolis at its
twenty-third session, where 700 dele
gates We're present, and passed strong
resolutions favoring the instruction of
hygiene, with special reference to the
effects of narcotics, in the public school,
and said that, I'VE believe that alcohol
should be classed with other towerfui
drugs; that when prescribed it should be
done with conscientious caution and sense
of great responsibility" This same asso-
citation passed stronger resolutions,
showing advanced sentiment on this
subjectj at st. Louis this year. A friend
of mine asked for me ain eminent Allo
pathic surgeon in New York City :
"What are the advantages of alcohol as
medicine p
He replied with great emphasis :
"There are no advantages. The fact is,
it is evil and only evil, and that contin.
ually and continuously. 1t hardens the
stomach, burns the membrane and de-
stroyes generally-let it alone" So
much for Americas wise men. We
could so on until you would be wearied,
but our object is to give just enough to
make you want to investigate for your
self, with hope that you will think mp.
on this subject as you have not done
before.
In our investigations let us remember
that "medcnl science is one thing and
medical dogma is quite another !" and
that even though grave and learned
medical professors are weak enough to
have fashions in medicine, which are as
changeable as other fashions, DIR. Ed
nuns Of England says: Forty years
ago the fathers of the very men who
now prescribe brandy, wine and ale for
almost all diseases, prescribed calomel,
bleeding and starving instead. They
did this conscientiously, too, no doubt (;
but then, as now, the tendency Of their
medicines was to kill rather than cure. ;,
And, by the way, this same DIR. Ed
monds, who has been senior physician
of several hospitals in London, was the
founder OF the temperance hospital in
that city-founded to prove from fiets
(facts are what science always demands)
that disease could be successfully treated
without alcohol and after twelve years
of this scientific demonstration--and
you must remember that it was, with
other hospitals, subject to investigation
by the government-has been pronounc
ed success, and the question of treat
ing disease without alcohol can no long
ms, bn tor,N,aI n,, nxnnrip,ant Tho vieit-